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27 January 2025
ASIA/CHINA - The Lunar New Year of Chinese Catholic communities: Blessing for families, visits to hospitals, works of charity
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The great “ChunYun army”, the endless crowd of people who travel across China to celebrate the Chinese New Year with their loved ones, marks one of the most significant moments of the year. ...
27 January 2025
AFRICA/DR CONGO - M23 enters Goma
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “It was a terrible night,” local sources told Fides from Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was conquered today, January 27, by the re ...
27 January 2025
EUROPE/ITALY - The testimony of Roseline Hamel at the ‘Jubilee of the world of Communication’: “forgiveness is a force for peace and hope”
by Pascale Rizk
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In a “world that is falling apart everywhere”, where many end up surrendering to evil even “for convenience”, there are also men and women of faith and good will who liv ...
26 January 2025
VATICAN - Pope Francis: The Word of God always amazes us and calls us to be witnesses of the Gospel
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The salvation Jesus bestows on us is not yet fully realized. We know this. Yet wars, injustice, pain and death will not have the final word. The Gospel never disappoints”.
In St. P ...
25 January 2025
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Nouna, Burkina Faso
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nouna, Burkina Faso, presented by Bishop Joseph Sama.
The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Guy M ...
25 January 2025
ASIA/MYANMAR - Erection of the diocese of Mindat, Myanmar, and appointment of first bishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Mindat, Myanmar, with territory taken from the diocese of Hakha, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Mandalay.
The Holy ...
25 January 2025
AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Laghouat
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Laghouat (Algeria) presented by His Exc. Msgr. John Gordon MacWilliam, M. Afr. At the same time the ...
25 January 2025
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and succession of metropolitan archbishop of Bombay
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bombay, India, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Oswald Gracias.
He is succeeded by ...
25 January 2025
AMERICA/CHILE - First National Youth Day: “Jesus calls you, do not say no”
La Serena (Agenzia Fides) - “Let us all open our hearts. You, especially young people, open your hearts to Jesus. Do it, do not be afraid, because the Lord needs you today, he needs all of us today”. With these words ...
25 January 2025
ASIA/MYANMAR - Negotiations to end the violence: dialogue and humanitarian aid are a priority
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The priority in Myanmar is dialogue with the aim of building peace. This is what the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations have confirmed, in ligh ...
24 January 2025
ASIA/INDIA - The Jubilee Year in Tamil Nadu: giving new hope to the Dalits
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “For the Dalits, the Jubilee means hoping for the recognition of their human dignity; it means breaking the spiral of discrimination and exclusion. The Jubilee period is a time of hope for t ...
24 January 2025
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Escalation of violence in North Kivu: M23 rebels advance towards Goma
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The North Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is facing a serious escalation of violence, with intense fighting between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and th ...
24 January 2025
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - People in Barquisimeto do not lose hope: the poor help the poor
Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - After the elections held in July last year (see Fides, 30/7/2024), there is an impression that an air of sadness, frustration and disappointment is hanging over Venezuela. Father Miguel Ang ...
24 January 2025
AFRICA/GABON - The intention to establish a Catholic University in Gabon confirmed
Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy See is interested in offering young Gabonese people an educational alternative for professional and university studies,” said Msgr. Javier Herrera Corona, Apostolic Nuncio in th ...
23 January 2025
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Cai Bingrui transferred from the diocese of Xiamen to the episcopal see of Fuzhou
by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao
Fuzhou (Agenzia Fides) – The episcopal see of Fuzhou has a new bishop: Joseph Cai Bingrui, currently Bishop of the diocese of Xiamen.
Pope Francis - reports the Daily Bulletin of ...
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